Redesigning the Welfare State
Subtitle: GermanyÆs Current Agenda for an Activating Social Assistance (Ifo Economic Policy)
Contributors: Hans-Werner Sinn (Editor); Christian Holzner (Editor); Wolfgang Meister (Editor)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: December 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781847200778
Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Poverty; Labor; Public Policy - Social Policy; Employment; Germany; Public welfare; Welfare recipients
Description: 'Redesigning the Welfare State' argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country's welfare system is designed.